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HURON EXPOSITOR.
A ROAR FROM A FORGE.
If there's any one mortal thing as
A man's got to be proud on, it's his
strength—that what 1 says; and Frat
as fall o' bounce about mine Ss a
man can be. I ain't "got no head
not to speak of—leastwise, I mean
not a learned head, for though_ they
talks about reading made easy, it
lees never easy for me; and as for.
writing --well, I can chalk a bit, ited
keep e score up behind`the door in
the einithy, while as to booking, why
Davy does all that— he's my t'other
head. I often thinkFas I must have
a bit o' the bull—John Bull—in my
breed, for you never saw such a
short, black, curly block as I've got
.—thick as it's long -; hile as for
arms, and chest, and stand
against any man in any forge in the
country—same hammers, same
weight, double or single, and tire
him, or my name ain't Solomon
Brown. There, now, I told you a
man ought to be proud of his
strength, arid I am, precious.
But then, as I said before, I ain't
got no thinkingt head to signify;
and 1 andliure my old folks called
me Solinnon becalise they krtowed
I should never have any gumption.:
they ought to have called me Sam -
Non, for I'm as, strong *sa, horse,
and tiother day, when 1 took Davy
to the Museum, there in Jermyn
Street, he showed me all •the things
intide, and theire was one great
_statty, as he said was called Hercules,
and my bay says—only it was too
big—it was just as if it had been
made for my model.
"Well, Davy," I says, "I daresay
you are right, but you ain't worry
-proud o' your father to say he's like
that chap with a nose o' the ,Tom
Sayets breed." .
"Why, Father," he says, "that
:figure's considered the werry per-
fection of human muscle and
strength ;" and as alp- boy's allus
right about them sort e' things, and
I ain't, I didn't say no more about it.
Yoti see I takes Davy to the door
ef these places, for I often has to
carry him a bit along the streets ;
and then when we gets to door
gives up to him., and he takes me in
and shows Me all the things inside.
Re goes in quite bold and writes
his name in the book, and the man
says, "Leave your stick, sire" but
Davytehows him his irons down his
legs, and that be can't get on with -
t.
out a stick, amd then the man smiles
pleasant -like and says, "All right,
sir," as respectfully as if my boy was
lord; and then in we gees. This
serter thine6, though, only took place
at first, before they got to know
Davy; but you see, they all -knows
him now at the museums and most
o' the sights as we goesto.
It's • wonderful what that boy
knlows, for he's allus a reading or
writing something; and when he's
got a book, it's beautitill to listen to
as he warms up and reads to
you as if he wanted to make you
see it all, and you. can, too; for
sometimes, when he sits in his little
chair on the big bench reading to
me, it's wencierful, and I've often
stopped work and let the iron get
cold while I saw it all like a picter.
As to his writing, why it beats print,
though I ain't much of a fist at read-
ing it; but I knows what the figures
are, for he makes them big, and so
1 calfs him my clerk, and he makes
out all my bilis.
But along o' them museums and
places, he coaxes me to take him
sometimes, and then, as I said afore,
he takes me when we gets there, and
it's wonderful what he knows. I
don't care what it is he's down up-
on everything, and has something to
say about it and tell me, till it's
wonderful to hear him. You know
he's only a littre bit of a ohap, with
his poor little baek all crooked,
and his head all down between his
shoulders; whilst the leg that was
smashed is all drawn up, and he's
that thin and small that you'd think
he was only seven years old, whee
he's just fourteen, bless yer. Bui;
you should see his face—I only
wish you could—for it's wonderful
what a deal there seems td be in it.
• We look a queer pair, I know—
me so big, and stout, and strong, and
hira soelittle, and thin, and weak;
but then, you know, I'm nothing to
him, and he quite puts me in the
shade. You eee• he's werry fond o'
, sitting ia my !forge and seeing the
• tvork ; and then he reads to me, and
laughs, like everybody else does,.
because summer and winter I
always strips off my wesket, un-
fastens my shirt collar, rolls up my
sleevee, and works free. I always
keep a big can o' water. in the
smithy, and drinks hearty when
I'rn hot; and as I drink out d' the
spout, because a mug would allus
be dusty and grimy, Davy says I
look like a Cyclop tryikagl to blow a
blast on a great horn. Thenr he
telled rae about them old one -eyed
blacksmiths forging away down in
that burning mountain, and when
I let a shoe get cold as I listened,
and then said I thought it was all
gammon, he laughed; and said I was
right, for there wasn't much iron in
thunderbolts.
But we don't always walk, mind
you, for DOW an
done a potty go
nese, Bill jams
hansom cab:
he say il 'where
And --then
then, when he'e
d stroke of busi-
rives up. with his
nd 'Now, Daiy,"
y 'boy .sotnet
chooses one plaPe, andisoinet
another ; and w en I'vebeen
cleaned myself, I find Bill J
hulled his Imes.1 and cheese
beer; and he eiri ee us off in s
and sets us dawn say at the Br
-Museum, or el where, -whi
pleases Davy wo derfally ; and
knows Bill :means well, and has a
been sorry he drove over the
boy, Which I am going to tell
about birneby.
Why, I'm as pi oad ci" that bo
if he'd been the fi lest -looking fel
in all England, h d its quite w
derful hew peopl take to him.
don't care. wheth e its the Pic
Galleries, or the British, or. the So
Kensington, or the Geolog
Museum, it's all o e to him, and
best frieeds wit soraebody in
time. I don't tare any notice, b
you, nor shove i my hammer,
looks quietly abo t vie, as prou
you please, while ome gentlema
be talking away t Davy about
ich he tells
at home, stind
be anvil. D
arn, and he g
a blac.Issmih
t
languages,
at than ; so I
partners? and
ork and I'll -
Museum ta
and.of course
all for my bo
n't say as
fancy', only so
tings, and so
g as ever I
and gun-barre
vy don't care
for what b
looking over
shells; and
re to hear wh
ou'll get tired o'
boat Davy this
and if so, you'd
esh leaf ; for this
bmit that boy;
when I think of
f red-hot metal,
knock tne into what—do hat you
at glowing and
times Pal like
est bar. Why,
itle weak forte!
th trying,•time
a frame made
legs, one that
and didn't I get
no end o' cus-
imea
imes
and
ones
and
tyle
itish
e
he
Ilus
poor
you
y as
lo
on -
1
sure
fith
ical
he's
no
less
but
d as
n '11
all
me
avy
ets
as
and
tell
he•
do
kes
we
y's
see
me
me
did
Is;
an
e's
is
it
at
sorts o thi▪ ngs, w
abut when we're
banging away at
says I ought to 1
telling • me about
learnt all sorts
made. hit -itself a gr
'him that we'll go
shall do the head -
all the labor.
Jertninastreet
Davy's fancy most,
,
goes there for it'
pleaeure ; . but I b
much to take one's
werry nice iron ea
pretty bits o", fiirg
iiee—sword-bli,ies,
and such. But D
old stub for the
always staring and
the old bones an
would meke you st
he knOws about 'e
Now, I daresay
heasing.so much
and Davy that;
better tura over a f
is going totbe all
for I can't help it,
him I'm like a bit
yon may take me an
any shape you iik
will with me, I'm t
soft; 'while at othe
a bit . o' the tciug
God bless his poor
Wasn't I 'whole Mo
after time, till I go
to support his poo
was easy and light?
into hot water With
tomers for negl eti g _their work
But what did I care when Davy ha
got it strapped o gand I sawed m
ii
walking-ittick in half, and he wen
alone at such a rte that missus an
me cried, *1-1Ooray!" and yo
wouldn't guess in twenty years wha
Davy and me did next minute, s
I'll tell you. We went into th
smithy and shoved his crutches int
the forge, and I blowed the bellow
myself till they were all burnt up
while that boy's 'face shone in th
blaze as he stood rubbing his hands
and he says :—
"Wait a bit, father, and we'l
burn the stick too."
He'd have made a fine smith
though, if he'd Ileen strong. H
knows the trade now, every bit o
it, though be couldn't; give a strok
with 'my little hammer ; for he neve
loved anything better than to sit in
his chair on the big bench, watching
ithe sparks fly up the chimney, and
listening to the roar cf the bellows
and the clink, clink, thud, thud of
the hammers on the anvil. When
he was a little one—leastwise, 1
mean when he waii younger, for he
don't grow no bigger—I , used to
talk to him; but now I'm left' all
behinel,-and he talks to ma at such
a rate •• that I'm , getting quite a
scholar and learn no end. You see
he sits reading e great deal, for
though he can go along weiry fair
for. a little way wit rth that stick of
• t
his, he Boon gets ed, for his, back's
werry weak; tut: .t don't matter if
I'm along with him, for be ain't no
weight to carry; ttied he says he ain't
asihruned to be carried fer it ain't his
fault.
Poor little chap, he nearly bad
his heart broke one day when a half-
drunk tramp come into the smithy
and ast me for a job. Now, if he'd
been Sober I should- heve given him
half a day, as I allus do with a chap.
outer work, whether I wants -help
or whether I don't --and it ain't
.often as I do want help, for me and
the "prentice Car. do al as comes to -
my share. But you see he was half
drunk, and big, -and ho Inceable, and
I wouldn't give hira a job, nor yet
any money for beer; for you see I've
got 'rum ideas of mypwn about beer.
I never allows none •in my works.
I allus calls the smithy my works,
since Davy sits there as foreman.
We want somethin over our hot,
dry work, and the e's my can o'
water to go at as hearty as you like;
but none o' your Dutch courage --no
beer in work hours.
I I
"Then you
you. No, Ia
pint for dinne
rumor, and a
an evening; a
_joys it too ; so
And if you th
total abstaine
life, you may
—my wife, y
thinks of it.
be ste well no
peppery about
ing. •
e a teetotaller," says
n't ;' for I has a half
, and my half-pint for
drop with my pipe of
d what's Fore, I en
you see you!re, wreege.
nk because I ain't a
I do l't lead a- proper
o and ask my inismis
11 k ow—what she
Lees wise, it would
for he might turn
it an4 call it insult -
• I3ut along that tratnp smith:
be had come ancl hut and bolted
the half-doori the t ithy after him,
and when be found as I wouldn't
give, hint neither job not money, he
begins to swea ; an& that's a thing
as I don't allo v in n y place, wheth-
er it's at a ma Or a horse come to
be shod; for i the b ast is obstropo-
lus, give him rap ith the ham-
mer handle as thoug 1 you Was his
niaster, not m ke a east o' yourself
and his equal, r wus , by nsing foul
language; that s• wha I says.
Now, you k ow I don't want to
brag, for I use to le out stiff sonie-
times ; but 1 dropped it all alopg o'
my boy Davy; for w en I began te
see how- old, an deep, and knowing
he grew, anti ow listened and
caught at ever thing as was said,
Pm blessed if. 1 didn t get ashamed
of it, and after'a bit f a fight I left
it off—and tha 'se fa t.
So this chap begiu to swear and
go on, till I tel s him he'd better go.
But he says he see e anywheres
fast,: and went in 9.W ul, till 'began
to get rather ru ty.
• "I'm as good a ma as you," he
says, "If I am uter ork."
"That's wer y likely," 1 says,
quietly; ain t mac account my-.
self."
"And when
work. I don't
that 'ere."
• This was me
as I was forgin
shoe for a hors
foot.
"Ah," I says
count, is it"
i'You think y s ursel
:because you've •ot yo
the door ; but I des
ain't paid fon" s ys he
Now, that ma e rn
horse 'pricked i i the
just then things bad
slack, and 1 wa a bi
with my iron m
ast for money, fo I kei
fi-pun' note, a. d h
meant pay; an I mi
any amount o' cr dit, w
1 wouldn't take. But
was a bit behin and
thing Gall up n my
nearly put toy work d
wor
snob
•
' he says, "I
the job - like
nt as e poke for me,
a werry awkward
withan ill -shaped
"it a
at him, but
"Don't be a fol,"
•self ; "the man's drun
know what he sa1 a."
Then he turns to
and wanted SOD3 thing
but he didn't get n aIn
just then there • as a s
in the fire; the 'p entic
sled; I takes the parkl
with the tongs; ncl,ta
do,,.1 gives it a 4 urish
laying it upon th anvil
pect a spark flew •n thi.
stood close by, a d he 1
than ever.
"Now," I says "tha s enough;
and if youain't o I shall put you
out." And then beAurns to _go ;
but wen he go half way to the
door lie turns •ound again, and
speaking as be has don all along,
with lots o' what Davy call adjec-
tives among his words, e says to
n t much ac -
precious fine
r name over
your iron
flinch like a
shoeiug, for
been awful
behind -hand
t as he ever
t taking him
knowed I
ht have had
hich o' course
you see
fele some -
face, and I
ern and went
•
ays to my -
and don't
peeetice,
out of he ;
better; and
oe well hot
runs to the
ng iron out
we mostly
in air afore
when 1 ex -
chap, as he
t out vtuss
S
me—• •
"You're good f r non
should like to ha e th
yofourthat • humped backe
rushed at hi witi the hot
shoe; bult recollected n yself, and
dropped t; and then, dodging'a
blow he made at ty fa e, get hold
of him by the s if o' t e neck end
one leg of his tr ers, a d sent him
flying over the hal oor ut into the
road afore he kne. wher he was.
I was savage; ut I burst Out
laughing directly a ter, f i be warn't
a bit hurt. You ee the have a
plan at our part o' se aping the
roads, and leaving all t e mud in
.the kennel for a da or ti J to drain•
• and this chap cam , down plop in
the soft pudding, nd when he got
up and walked off he lool. ed rather
nice.
But as soon as hel
. and I turned to pie
laugh went off my
•for I saw my poor
down upon nis han
• break his heart ;• a
what it was about.
savage myself at
said that I pitehe
then, as soon as I
was all over. It
though, with poor
Help nie down
me go indoors,' he says, a
heard him sob and mutt
self, Oh, why am I not 1
bus '
We tried all we could t
him, hut he sat by the fir
bing for long euoug ; and
'lit; and I
drowning
pup 0',
adshi
up th
ce in
oy wi
•
filed away,
shoe, the
moment,
h his face
s, sobbing fit to
d th n I knew
1 h d felt- so
hat t e fellow
him ; but
held •one it, it
was different,
avy.
fath r, and Ilet
d then I
r to him-
ke other
comfort
side sob•
he never
forgot it, for it almost broke his
he'trbv.
Dy and me anus got to church
toget er on Supdays, and he finds
the p aces. Sortie time Utak he used
to lihle to he helpedup the peat, so
that he could se over the peW ; tett
of leis he stands upon the hassock,
whew there is one, and wheh there
ain't he stands c own upou the Boor.
You. never knew such a rnernory as
he's got. Whyt 'of a night when
we're sitting all, together, he gets
out his little Bible, where ` he has
put a mark in about the teXt, and
he'll go througii best part 1 of the
sermon after hit; fashion, folt he re-
collec s all what it was about. Then
afteniards, perhaps, he sins over
the hymn in the lowest, sweetest
voice you ever hard—so sweet and
melancholy that I've seen hit Moth-
er get up and go out of the room to
have a good cry 11 to herself. She
says i's like the voice of an ` azigel,
and t at' she fears our poor by isn't
long f r this wor d • and then some-
thing like a ch ud seems te •come
over iue, so that I can't see, and be-
gin to tremble, nd it seems AS that
I've caught it f the wife, far that
somed ing whicl came like a cloud
over rby eyesig t turns out: to be
one, and name 'han once there has
been ain—het •alding raih—fall
from out of that cloud. Auld then
the milssus arid riLe have gon4 down
on ourl knees tegether to prdy God
thatthat may Lot come uppn us.
We d n't etk mu le for we can bear
,
povert or troub e, or sicknelis, but
not to Ilose our on y child ---dearer to
us far or his we knets. I 1
1
•
i .
Perl aps I've g ne up to fetph the
wife down, for I know well enough
what made her 1 ave the room, and
I've • Made- up y mind that I
• wouldn't be soft ;l but the complaint
• i$ mostly werry etching, and l'iaa
neraily the wort o' the twot, Bat
etsy says ther s no call 'to be
ashamea of lovitig Our pain. ,. little
cripple and to huinble ourselves lest
he she) ld be taken away frodi us,
and di n, often and often, as ,we've
knelt together, hi sad little *Voice
hes risen louder a d louder—for he
sings best -when h 's alone—and so
it's gone ou rising and falling, so
sweet and pure; t at what with the
thoughts of his illiction and the
wonder of that mi. sic, which seemed
to go .through and through me, it's
been no use to try and hold up, for
those .4ocould keep down the sobs
-must net have been fathers eta chilil
they loVea, and have been macre of
very different mold to what I em.
Ile never Sings merry songs, but
always 4weet and slow hymns, and
many's the time I've seen people
falter and stop as they were going
by, to listento his beautiful voice.
Poor Davy ! you'd say it's the Only
autiful thing theie is about him e
t we don't think so; we can see
auty in his Jareameyes and his pale
rewomit face, that lights up. with
iles whenever he sees us ; we can
e beauty in his every loving gentle
y; in his love for us; in the pe-
nce with. which he bears his great
ction, for though but fourteen he
s the thoughts and ways of one
ch older. ...Beauty ? Yes! We.
n see many beauties in his little
ntracted and helpless form; and,
we-tpoor simple folks as we are
a poor ignorant blacksmith and
wife—if we ere fond and foolish
er our lithe hunthback, is it not
lessiug from where blessings come
temper the windto the weak, to
ten his suffering? for at timesehe
i
l.
fferm 8 angely. •
Leail talk for hours about him
his ways; huw clever .he al-
ys waseand.what queintsayings
had. Why, didn't he toddle in
his mother one day to tell her he
,
be
bu
be
ca
see
se
wa
tie
ha
mu
ea
co
if
his
ov
ab
to
sof
511
and
wa
he
to
had seen 4ather. making a horse ; and
• him and said
ake horses, only
stick out that
that the horse
when she laughed a
that father did not
•
shod then, didn't h
he was right, arid sa
only had three legs till father ham-
mered away and finished the last,
and put it down, forhe had it in his
lap just before.
Ah! he ran about well then ; too
well, poor 'child ! AI it seems only
yesterday, and it's y ars ago that I
nd thought he
rden, when my
ed wand—
he says.
den, I think,' I
was ousy at work,
wa t gone into the g
wife came in and loo
Where's Davy T
Gone into the gar
says.
The missus went aid looked, and
came back directly.
'He's not there,' she says and
then I saw that the half -door was
open, and that he =1st have slipped
the bolt end got o t while I was
•
e
busy and not noticie .
My wife ran to theI door, shrieked
out, and then fell don like a stone;
for at the same moment I heard the
sound of wheels meg a loud shout,
and then a hansom qab was piffled
up just at the door, s sudden that
the horse was do vn upon his
ha
late, un Yes,cfhoeii.s.
itwas
fwewasvards ehind him lay
pulle up, but too
my poor little child, crushed in. the
citist, while the bloal flowed from
his little mouth and eers.
_ 1 had him up in a moment, and
was carrying_ him in, feeling as
though it was all a horrid dream ;
- , I
while a gentleman and lady jumped
out of the cab and stood looking all
pale and trembly.
'What can we do What can
we do I' said the !fitly.
and got hold of me.
nodding towards My wife; for I
hardly knew what I was about, and
du: .5:libten1;111he e:174,
Help her up, please,' I muttered,
into the smithy
'I've got little
uns of my own, and I'd ha' give iny
right hand sootier than this should
Jia' happened. God bless the poor
bairn; it ran right underthe horse's
feet, Ind I pulled up the inonaent I
saw it. Flere, jump in here,' he
cried, pulling at my oriu ; and afore
1 knew what I was about -1 was
that stunned—I was in the cab,
livvii6viT:
ets.hahduhe gentleman aside me, an4
.
er lg was not broken :it Was
e
regularly criished ; while the horse
must have sti trek him Somewhere in
bright light intO my dark ht, for
4itr
mitiOtee; and then I soon learnt
the back ; but the doctor sent one
the worst Poor Davy his little
tendthe horse a gal lopin' like fury,
We were at the orsepittle in ten
he thought the, child would
gentlemen was everry.kind,
and he stopped rill 1 was obliged to
go, which was when the (teeter had
said 'nothing more could be done ;
and the little fellow was lying asleep
in a little white bed. The gentle-
man was werry kind, and as the
cabman drove us back—for be, too,
waited all the time, and said his
name ,.1•7as William Jones, wheu the
gent took his number--t-he wan ted
me to take Lit couple of Soverigns.
No,' I soya I don't want that;
I want the life. of my 19001‘ boy.'
When we got back,I found tbelady
• tending poor Betsy so lovingly, and
when she and the gentlefnan went,
• they promised to come again, and
,did often.
Next morning -at nine o'clock the
werry cab drives up to the door just
as we were getting ready to ge down
andsee the poor child' • and then
Bill Jones collies in withhis wife,
• and, poor -things, I couldn't have
said a hard word to sa-ve my life •
'
for Bill Jones' wife kissed and cried
over mine ti1 I saw 'em in one an-
other's armst.crying together, such
tears Only` methers can weep. And
then Bill Jones he had Ifbld of my
band, and begged of me to forgive
him for what, I know well enough
heteouldn't help, and that, too, with
tears in his eyes, though he thought
• I didn't see ,'em—and him only a
cabby'
• Well, Mrs. Jones walked home;
-and Bill drove me and Ilitsy to the
orsepittle,and there westayed as long
as we couid, and then vent sorrow-
fully home again, to sit together in
the little kitehen ; for I felt as if I
couldn't work. There was no little
pattering, feet now running about
the house; nd playthings; no merry
little prattling voice; all seemed
still and deaci-like ; and I had hard
work of it to comfort my poor wife,
when I wanted- it bad enough my-
• self, for I always was as twitter as a
gal about . that boy—but then I
never had no bead to signify.
Nex' day but one Bill Jones
draws up again and drives us to the
orsepittle; and so on every visitors'
day, when held wait till he knew
how the boy was, and then go off to
his day't dooty, .
• And so things went on, till one
day the ,doctor takes me aside and
says that he rnest amputate the poor
child'sleg, for he feared mortitica-
don had set in ; but I felt that bitter
and hard with my sorrow that I
Said I would sooner he died, and so
the operation wain't performed,
while for two days I felt almost like
a murderer. •
But the doctor was wrong; for
though Betsy and I had taken as
we thought a farewell of the poor
child, a change took place for the
better, and. he gradually revived;
and three months after the aceident
Bill Jones drove us' one day to tb.e
orsepittle, and we brought' the poor
little fellow home.
The Joneses came to tea that
afternoon, and Bill and I were to
have smoked our pipes together in
the bit of brick garden, but when we
got back home and found Mrs. Jones
there-, and .Bill had put •up his horse
andcome in, we felt that sad and
miserable, and the women cried so
bitterly over the poor, weak, help-
less little -cripple, that Opr pipes
were out before we got them aiight,
and we spent a werry sad and dreary
aevndeTniDimngaesv;y, though he hasn't mown
slipped away since then:
strong in his body, has got to be
wonderfully- strong in his head, and
of course we keep hoping that he
may get better some day; for, you
know, what should we do if we
couldn't hope? 'No one could have
a more loving child, I know that;
and the missus and me we've just
made a vow to, take on never no
more, for we have got a son to be
iirouci of—for looks ain't nswe'veothing,
after all; and. as long a
health; and I'm as strong as a horse,
and Davy' as clever as any scholar
can be, why, what more can • we
want?. I know thell do something
4
strong some day, I'm sure of it;
he thinks so, and finds such fault
with some of my tools; but I don't
care whether he does or not, as long
as we can do our dooty by him.
I'm reckoning, though, on one
thiug, and when it does come I111
pull away at that shiny old chain
by the forge till them bellows roar
again. I'm reckoning on seeing the
day when Davy shall stand by me
with the bright light of my fire glow-
ing on hislhaughtful little face—
when, with, a loud cheer of triumph,
we put something where we put the
crutches ; for, as Davy said
Wait a bit, father, and well
burn the stick too I'
etettematetteematam
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Which he can furnish cheaper than they can be
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EASE AND COMFORT.
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Can only be obtained by Teeing -
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Have, after years of experience and experiment,
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vrithout chan.ge. 247
SEPT. 6 if,
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nu.nIgv hlaattlyilem:
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Inai_clatAive,scabb000uimt
•school twice
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and Satur lnys.
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square, but how
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most trot ble,somel
were a young
to be married,
who wanted to be
old maid who didl
wanted._A• gentiemai
wife and • recoil"
eighteen' hundred
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tion of the value woman e
•
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preacherWhy,ble sisfhe
Tsur
Him, that he nei
house on Sundet
his gun along.
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to his servant, '-
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dinners T Rea
know, form su
any th ng rice in
don't simd some
parlor.'
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in home from eh
tol the Iner•its of
on. Said be :•
one of the most
ever delivered bef
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in T replied Jack,
will never get aner
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that on the follol
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a'n't narry text i
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a guide, and a
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want a boss to
gettirf too readriti
that yer ho, woeJ
seein' th.er Scrib
etrikin' out too rt
-these yer Survia24
says to them, vf-OV
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for that vear.
tom
Negro che;
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magazinem entiti
grapos,' pictures
•of colored sa bjectA
an cid darkie gr1
a. bit of • queint;
approach of a par
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utu7' threwtoth
gentlenien Paid,
pose yon ed gr
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heel with a 811I11/'
work if you wor
ing is more singt1
tempt for his ow4
inzteSoruutsheletoa
titdsar:
other set vaets,
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it.' A. tegalarj1
not long since,
presence, tieliberi
and kicked a _sab
upoim a floinebarti
niarkthg at th
inami eoxrparesisteigdmi
.01rfiii'lgilinthi:ritheha
aw t
Richara,' said th
• solemnly lifting
emphasize the ;tti
• is a hereafter, dd
and here he si
enthusiasm and
there ain't no 11
powerful it is
• man followed the